a quick note on photoworks*
We use the term photoworks to name something that the word “photography” can no longer contain. It is not only about images, nor about a fixed outcome. A photowork is a configuration — a set of gestures, processes, materials, and relations that produce the image, but also exceed it. The term points to practices that displace photography from its traditional position, bringing it closer to more open, experimental, and process-based forms of working. It is precisely this displacement that interests us.
In msdm projects, photoworks do not begin or end at the moment of capture. They emerge through dérive, through archives, through contact with plants, through algorithmic systems, through editorial processes. They may take the form of books, textiles, installations, files, or sequences in transformation. These are works in which the image is not only represented, but produced in relation to other forces: light, chemistry, language, territory, code.
In this sense, the photowork becomes an unstable unit — something that moves between photography, publishing, and installation. A space where different regimes of visibility coexist. What interests us is not to fix the image, but to accompany its becoming. To work with photoworks is to accept that photography is not an isolated object, but a field of relations — where the human gesture is only one of many operations that give form to the visible.
Protocolo generativo (i): cartografias fabris abstração territorial e regimes de posse
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Protocolo generativo (ii): infraestruturas da memória e as mulheres nas tecnologias têxtil e elétrica
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